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Definition of Drivings
1. driving [n] - See also: driving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drivings
Literary usage of Drivings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Change for the American Notes: In Letters from London to New York by Henry Wood (1843)
"A Favourite Precept.—The late Duke of Sussex.—The Lying-in-state.—The Crowd.—Their
Remarks.—The Funeral.—Royalty.—Chronicle of Royal drivings and Di- ..."
2. Rock Blasting: A Practical Treatise on the Means Employed in Blasting Rocks by George Guillaume André (1878)
"... depend upon the number of machines employed, and the hardness of the rock to
be passed through. EXAMPLES OP drivings. The St. Gothard Tunnel—The St. ..."
3. The Mining Magazine (1857)
"... the " horizontal" drivings, he would have a true view of them; but these
drivings are the only thing £hat he would obtain a true view of in this plan. ..."
4. Ancient laws of Ireland by Ireland, John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, William Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, William Maunsell Hennessy, Robert Atkinson (1901)
"There are -with the Feine seven drivings that incur debts and ' tig-radus':
driving into the sea; driving into a puddle ;a driving into mud ; driving to the ..."
5. The Mining Engineer (1900)
"(10) The faces of work most liable (by his theory) to overtake the curves of
pressure and to set up violent phenomena were («) the faces of such drivings as ..."
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